New York, California, and most recently, Hawaii have enacted ivory bans. I think you can still pass down antique heirloom pieces, but no more selling & buying.
I grew up in Lahaina and scrimshaw was just part of town charm, whaling town history & all that. Since Hawaii is home to a bajillion endangered species, I've always taken conservation and restrictions in stride. Better to have the animal around in the wild, than eat it or wear it as a trinket, y'know?
I'm kind of wondering what will happen to all that now that Governor Ige has signed SB 2467 in law as Act 125. It sounds like it's in line with what the Feds require and even went a step further.
"Hawaii’s ban last month was the strongest yet. Bowing to years of pressure from conservation groups fighting to save two iconic African animals from slaughter by poachers, state lawmakers not only banned sales of products containing elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn, but also artifacts made from the hides of numerous other species — seals, sharks, lions, hippopotamuses, jaguars, tigers, leopards, great apes, whales, walruses, monk seals and cheetahs.
The law in Hawaii is even stronger than the federal rule, which exempts items from walruses, whales and mammoths." - Washington Post
I grew up in Lahaina and scrimshaw was just part of town charm, whaling town history & all that. Since Hawaii is home to a bajillion endangered species, I've always taken conservation and restrictions in stride. Better to have the animal around in the wild, than eat it or wear it as a trinket, y'know?
I'm kind of wondering what will happen to all that now that Governor Ige has signed SB 2467 in law as Act 125. It sounds like it's in line with what the Feds require and even went a step further.
"Hawaii’s ban last month was the strongest yet. Bowing to years of pressure from conservation groups fighting to save two iconic African animals from slaughter by poachers, state lawmakers not only banned sales of products containing elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn, but also artifacts made from the hides of numerous other species — seals, sharks, lions, hippopotamuses, jaguars, tigers, leopards, great apes, whales, walruses, monk seals and cheetahs.
The law in Hawaii is even stronger than the federal rule, which exempts items from walruses, whales and mammoths." - Washington Post